The new bus model has been proposed in 17.02 without being used. The big rework should happen in 17.05.
Suggested-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.j...@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monja...@6wind.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index f0b5329..8b66407 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -13,10 +13,14 @@ Deprecation Notices has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change targets release 17.05. -* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.02. This currently serves as +* The PCI and VDEV subsystems will be converted as drivers of the new bus model. + It will imply some EAL API changes in 17.05. + +* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.05. This currently serves as a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus`` will provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in - ``eth_driver``. + ``eth_driver``. Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from + ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05. * ethdev: an API change is planned for 17.02 for the function ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process``. In 17.02 the function will return an ``int`` -- 2.7.0
